Food fight starting early over school lunch rulesPoliticoKeeping intact a 2010 rewrite of a law that dictates what kids eat in school — from the number of carrots to the amount of salt in their shepherd's pie — could be a major challenge as some in Congress are already angling for a rollback.

Editor's note: The American Frozen Food Institute's efforts to permanently expand a USDA school snack program to include frozen fruits and vegetables are highlighted in this story.

That's just grate: A cheese fightPoliticoWould Parmesan by any other name be as tasty atop your pasta? A ripening trade battle might put that to the test. As part of trade talks, the European Union wants to ban the use of European names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the United States.

McDonald's outlines plan to win back its customersThe Associated Press via The SpectrumAt a time when chains like Chipotle and smaller players like Five Guys Burgers and Fries are growing, there are a few strategies McDonald's Corp. is focusing on to overcome "challenging industry dynamics."

Florida loss a blow to Democrats' 2014 hopesThe HillRepublican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in the special election to fill Florida's 13th District on Tuesday night, delivering a stinging blow to Democrats that underscores their vulnerability to Obamacare attacks.

Obama hits low point in another pollUSA TodayAgain: Another poll, another low point for President Barack Obama. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll gives Obama a job approval of 41 percent, a low mark for the president in this survey.

US gets gold medal in 'food safety Olympics' with EUFood Safety NewsUsually it's David Acheson, a former top FDA official, who stirs things up with his speeches or guest commentaries from The Acheson Group. But this time, it's the consulting firm's chief science officer, Jennifer McEntire, who came up with a sort of food safety Olympics between the United States and the European Union.

Opinion: The wrongheaded law that's making your food less safeThe WeekOne could argue that the most serious "problem we have here" in Idaho — and in other states with significant agricultural production facilities and powerful lobbies — is not so much a scourge of unfair publicity but the fact that too many employees working around animals are abusing or neglecting them, often grotesquely so, in a way that jeopardizes the safety of the food we eat and the milk we drink.

7 women changing how we think about foodGood HousekeepingGood Housekeeping has named the top seven most influential women affecting American food consumption today, from the first lady to the first female Iron Chef.

The end of the traditional supermarketThe Washington PostIn another sign of an industry-wide shakeup that is transforming how consumers shop for their food, Safeway on Thursday announced what amounts to a merger with Albertsons.

Expo West Day 2: Non-GMO explosion, frozen food 2.0 and moreFood Navigator-USAOn Day 2 of Natural Products Expo West, the FoodNavigator-USA team trawled the show floor and found a proliferation of protein, popcorn, quinoa, chia, gluten-free and non-GMO claims. But there was also some innovative stuff happening in the frozen meal aisle.

California drought means 30 million salmon may be trucked to seaReutersCalifornia's record drought has left the Sacramento River so low that wildlife officials say they may have to carry all 30 million young salmon from the state's largest man-made hatcheries to the Pacific Ocean in trucks to avoid depleting the stock.

FDA halts production at Delaware cheese plantWBOC and The Associated PressThe Food and Drug Administration has halted operations at a Delaware cheese plant after an outbreak of Listeria linked to the company's cheese killed one person and sickened seven others.

Ammeraal Beltech grabs a slice of pizza marketFood Production Ammeraal Beltech has launched its second-generation Permaline U2 belt with a preprinted positioning template to make it easier for bakery staff to place products such as pizza, pastry or pies onto a conveyor.

Carlsen Baltic to display new Eutectic system at CV ShowMaterials Handling World MagazineCarlsen Baltic is displaying its latest solutions for the temperature-controlled grocery home delivery market: a 3.5 tonne multi-compartment, multi-temperature body using a low-carbon, eutectic refrigeration system.